Scalable semi-automated injera making system
AssigneeGirma Mulat Bekele
InventorGirma Mulat Bekele
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Abstract
A thin, flat bread-making machine targeted at the Ethiopian bread called Injera, including apparatus, methods and processes. The machine includes cooking surface stations, batter depositing apparatus and cover moving robot. A moving batter depositing apparatus deposits a batter at a stationary griddles followed by placing covers for a specified time to complete the cooking. When cooking is completed an apparatus/robot will remove the covers and the system alerts the end of the process to the operator. Removing the Injera from the machine manually and repeating the whole process again will complete the Injera making process.
Claims6
A semi-automated injera making apparatus comprising:
- (a) a linearly disposed platform wherein said platform includes a plurality of heated griddle surfaces for cooking injera;
- (b) a linearly moving injera batter dispensing device for dispensing and retaining a quantity of injera batter, said injera batter dispensing device being in operative communication with said platform to dispense said injera batter onto said griddle surfaces;
- (c) a batter spreading device for spreading said injera batter on to said griddle surfaces when said injera batter is dispensed on a respective one of said griddle surfaces;
- (d) a robotic arm device configured to move rotationally and along an X-axis a Y-axis and a Z-axis and being in operative communication with said platform and said griddle surfaces, said robotic arm device for picking up and placing a cover from a shelf onto a respective one of said griddles and removing said cover and replacing said cover back on said shelf based upon a preset cooking time of said injera batter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.